Checking Cyanotype Prints with Objects

Video Transcript

"So outside in the beautiful sunshine, I have my cyanotype, made with some flowers, sitting out here on this marble picnic table. It's been out here for about twenty minutes, and I'd like to see kind of how it's going. So I'm taking off my images and I can just see where this flower weed left an impression. And I can see of where my littler flowers left that blue, just light impression. To me, that's where I know that I probably have a pretty good exposure out here but I don't know for sure. The other thing that I could do sometimes is that I can almost do a double exposure of images on a piece of paper that I've coated. Now that's another way that you could make some more creative cyanotypes. But right now, really what I'm concerned about is this is sort of like a test. You know the beginning of the day today, it's about eleven o'clock, the light is kind of shady, kind of sunny so what, how this comes out is how I'm going to gauge the rest of the prints I make today, by. Because this has been about twenty minutes so if it's too dark, I'm going to cut it down to ten minutes, if it's too light, I'm going to give it ten minutes more. So your exposure, a lot of this stuff is very simple, but it still ties into the basics of photography and what's light sensitive. Let's go find out and see how this looks."